@G Dawg:
yeah, but this looks like all forms of the app are combined together to a single form, which is hardly maintainable. And using names that refer to the documentation shouldn't stop one from using self-documenting names.

And this is a WTF because...?
Ok the forms names aren't descriptive, that's not good but a WTF? (I don't understand German' descriptive names so maybe no seeing this as a full-blown WTF is biased).
It seems to be a lot of forms, is this the WTF?
The form shown looks complex, it seems to show on screen the data (reservations?) of a date period (maybe a report would be better) but I don't know the requirements so how we can dispute the design shown?
Yes... the screenshots hints what could be a maintenance nightmare... life is hard get used to it... plus I guess they give you money, isn't it? So what's the big deal?
Ok... maybe I'm just too cynic today.

Guayo and Shane -> If you had to maintain this, I bet that you'd completely agree that it was indeed 'From Hell'.
I'd quit, and get a real programming job if someone handed this to me to maintain and/or extend.

This is from hell, there is no justification. Who in their right mind would stick up for this guy? Yeah you/we get paid to maintain and fix stuff, no matter how crappy...but that doesn't mean the code isn't from hell sometimes!

Yes... the GUI looks very complex... I'm not sure what's its purpose or how it works, I'm just not keen to criticise something I don't understand... Yes I know there are GUI design guidelines and I'm pretty sure a simpler GUI design would work here. However I don't know what this form does not what the requirements are.
I'm not 100% sure about this design being more complex than it should be.

My closest approximation was a form with like 150 unbound fields spread out over about 10 tabs (this is a doctor, here is the address info, billing info, etc). But that was a mutant lavaflow that started as access2.0 (several years before I started there) and was a combo of access97/sql7 when I left. If you have thousands to millions of records, you can only use unbound forms if you want your form to load before the sun turns into a lump of coal.

There is absolutely no way to justify defending that. Jesus wept. And so do I.

As for Styx being 70s or 80s, it depends whether your teen years were spent blasting Pieces of Eight on the 8-track (Renegade was de rigeur) or Kilroy Was Here (Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto) on the cassette.

you can't guess - that's a form with million of controls that are shown or hidden at runtime and moved all around to indicate whether a room is occupied, booked or free for the day and whom it belongs (whatever you can see from the name, tooltips were not used anywhere)...

You don't have a timetable control inside access, so the programmer used textboxes (?) to show the state of the rooms at each day.
I think that their attributes like position, backcolour etc is set at runtime. They have to be unbound.
I hope that no programmer does that work by hand but that the form is generated at runtime.
This would explain the strange form names too.

Well, let's just say that I don't have access to ANY of that stuff when I design for Lotus Notes, not even non-modal sized windows, and I can build an interactive Gantt-style chart for the Notes client with 96% less WTF-ness than this thing has. I'm no MS Access guru, but the very laws of Nature demand that there is a better way. Forget about "proper environments" for a moment -- you can do better than that in VBA using a CSV file for the reservation data. I say again -- there is absolutely no way to justify defending that.

@jonesy
You know jonesy, the whole WTF concept thing is a little complex, and as you have already proved your fear for complex things, I'll try to explain it to you the simpler I can, here we go:
Yes... I (an only I) own the WTF concept. You don't like it? You don't agree? Does this shock you?...
I couldn't care less, so go on, post a reply, post this is a WTF, that is WTF, WTF with this guy,... that doesn't change a thing, I OWN the WTF concept!
I hope this wasn't too complex (and frightening) to you. ;)

> As for Styx being 70s or 80s, it depends whether your teen years were spent blasting Pieces of Eight on the 8-track (Renegade was de rigeur) or Kilroy Was Here (Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto) on the cassette.

They're a 70s band since "Come Sail Away" and "Lorelei" and most of their biggest hits came from that decade. I remember riding the bus to 6th grade hearing "Light Up And Be Happy" blaring over the radio! That was 1974!

By the 80s they were somewhat in decline. Mr. Roboto et al were funny, but lacking the grandeur of their previous work.